Summary
Thomas Wilhelm Greiffenhagen (19 November 1821 – 28 December 1890)[1] was a Baltic German journalist and politician who was the mayor of Reval (now Tallinn) from June 1883 to August 1885.
Thomas Wilhelm Greiffenhagen | |
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 Wilhelm Greiffenhagen, photographed by Charles Borchardt. | |
| Mayor of Tallinn | |
| In office June 1883 – August 1885 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Rudolf Karl von Uexküll |
| Succeeded by | Viktor von Maydell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 November 1821 Arkhangelsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 December 1890 (aged 69) Reval, Russian Empire (modern-day Tallinn, Estonia) |
The son of Germans from Schleswig and East Prussia, he studied jurisprudence at what is now the University of Tartu in Dorpat (modern-day Tartu), as well as in Bonn, Heidelberg, and Berlin. He was one of the editors of the German-language magazine Revalsche Zeitung, Estonia's first political newspaper, and was its editor-in-chief from 1864 to 1867. He was the mayor of Reval from June 1883 to August 1885, being disposed of by the governor of the Governorate of Estonia, Mikhail Shakhovskoy-Glebov-Strezhnev, after refusing to use the Russian language in official correspondence.[2] He called for greater political participation of the Estonian peasants in the political decision-making process and thus opposed the influential circles of the Estonian Knighthood.[3] He was succeeded by Viktor von Maydell. One of his sons, Otto Greiffenhagen, was a prominent historian, archivist and music critic.[4]
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References edit
- ^ "BBLD – Greifenhagen, Thomas Wilhelm" (in German). Baltische Historische Kommission. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Andrei Hvostov: "Uus on hästi unustatud vana"" (in Estonian). Sirp. 7 March 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3, S. 70f.
- ^ "Greifenhagen, Thomas Wilhelm" (in German). CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved 4 June 2018.